MAGGIE PAWSEY ASSISTANT EDITOR I wrote a journal entry at the beginning of my senior year of high school about how I did not want to grow up. Reading over it as I prepared to write this letter, my last…
Staying sane through growing pains
Category: Editorials
Lila Rose: A modern example of holy action
A. MONTES POLITICAL PAPIST COLUMNIST The semester is almost at an end. Students’ assignments are wrapping up, and finals are closing in. The season of Advent has begun, with Christmas music abounding and a beautiful candle wreath in Christ the King…
Catholic Values Column: Celebrate Christmas, after Christmas
ELISHA VALLADARAS-CORMIER CATHOLIC VALUES COLUMNIST With Thanksgiving over and Advent underway, it is unquestionably now secular Christmas season. To this point in time, most of us have been in a back-and-forth as to when it’s appropriate to start playing “White…
NFL playoff picture: Who’s in and who’s in the hunt
NICK MERSCH SPORTS EDITOR Baltimore Ravens: IN If you read my last column, you know what I think about Lamar Jackson. He’s quite literally unstoppable and so exciting to watch. Jackson coupled with a strong running game featuring Mark Ingram…
Austria Column: An ode to America
EDYTA WOLK AUSTRIA COLUMNIST Well, here I am, writing my last Austria column. This semester has gone by in the blink of an eye, and I feel like it was just yesterday that I was sharing with you all both…
Joshua Judges Ruth: Debaters state opinions on when Christmas music is appropriate
AN OBSERVANT SOCIALITE The Society of Truth attracted powerful statements and heated arguments at its latest debate last Sunday. Well over 200 students gathered in the Gentile Gallery to discuss the topic: “This house believes that it is anti-Christian to play Christmas music prior to…
Franciscan Fanfare: Living penance in Advent
LUKE PONCE FINE ARTS COLUMNIST “I believe in the sun, even when it’s not shining. I believe in love, even when I feel it not. I believe in God, even when he is silent.” It is the day before Thanksgiving, and for…
Franciscan Fanfare: Living penance in Advent
FR. JONATHAN ST. ANDRÉ, T.O.R. The question is often asked, “Is Advent a penitential season (like Lent)?” The answer is a bit tricky. On the negative, the “Code of Canon Law” is clear that it is not: “The penitential days and times in the universal Church are…
Critic’s Corner: Gone and probably forgotten
SARAH KADERBEK CRITIC’S CORNER COLUMNIST Reader, I graduated. OK, not yet, but this is the final print of the semester and my final column. My tenure on this hallowed page has been brief, but hopefully, you few (you happy few,…
JPII and the vocation of the artist
LUKE PONCE FINE ARTS COLUMNIST Early in my tenure as fine arts columnist for this publication, I issued an exhortation to my fellow artists encouraging them to make art and reminding them that, whatever capacity it takes on, their work is…